A roommate I had in Boston had a gravity bong filled with dill pickle juice...I think he used Manischewitz. The juice was full of peppercorns and chunks of garlic, so it was a total deli experience if the smoke was good.

on your rye whiskey front, you can taste this at Chat's on Capitol Hill on saturday from 3-6

High West Rendezvous Rye (Park City, Utah) $45.99With an unusual make-up of old and young whiskies and very high rye content, Rendezvous Rye has an incredible flavor profile that earned it Malt Advocates "Top 10 Whiskey of 2008" and what John Hansell, Malt Advocate Editor, calls "Great Price, compared to other premium rye whiskies."

A roommate I had in Boston had a gravity bong filled with dill pickle juice...I think he used Manischewitz. The juice was full of peppercorns and chunks of garlic, so it was a total deli experience if the smoke was good.

Dangit, for some reason I had you on ignore. I don't know how people keep ending up on my ignore list.

Also, I'm being ignored by one member. I wonder if it is accidental or if I pissed someone off. I feel that I'm finally a full fledged member of WNFF now that someone is ignoring me

on your rye whiskey front, you can taste this at Chat's on Capitol Hill on saturday from 3-6

High West Rendezvous Rye (Park City, Utah) $45.99With an unusual make-up of old and young whiskies and very high rye content, Rendezvous Rye has an incredible flavor profile that earned it Malt Advocates "Top 10 Whiskey of 2008" and what John Hansell, Malt Advocate Editor, calls "Great Price, compared to other premium rye whiskies."

Wow, that sounds neat. There seem to be a few "western" ryes around, invoking the cowboy/western boomtown days. In order to be called a rye whiskey, it has to be at least 51% rye in origin. The Wild Turkey I had was 65%, and the Rendezvous is "blended from two exotic straight rye whiskies (a 6-year-old that is 95% rye and a 16-year-old that is 80% rye)".

Okay, add it to my list of "gotta try". Anyone that likes whiskey owe it to themselves to try some of these ryes that are the foundation of the art in the US.

Try it with a little cranberry juice and a hint of vodka instead of coke or peach schnapps instead of the vodka. I forgot what they're called abut I knew this chick that used to make those and one or two of those are tolerable (if you're into sweet drinks). At some point sweet drinks, at least for me, become nauseous.

i had a drink last week called a "John Daly" up in Legal Seafood in Boston, it was equal parts of "Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka" and lemonade. It tasted just like an Arnold Palmer, the bartender warned me that the drink is a lot stronger than it tastes.

Has anyone seen sweet tea vodka at a Virginia ABC?

BTW, should I feel bad that they named a drink after a guy with a drinking problem?

I'll say it again: Highland Park 15yr FTMFW. It's the smoothest whiskey ever. It tastes good, not too sweet, not too much burn, no aftertaste. People called it the best whiskey in the world, I'm not complaining. It was 60 something fro the bottle, totally completely worth it.